Head of Transition

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car Cash Allowance
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

You will be responsible for

In the role, you will lead the development and delivery of Transition phase for the Goods For Resale (GFR) Programme. Working with the GFR Head of Programme and SRO to effectively deliver the programmes strategic objectives and support the establishment and transition of the new organisational capabilities in process and data management across Finance. The role will  be responsible for -

• Detailed Transition Framework that is adopted to support the Transition phase
• Defining and documenting the agreed transition approach and plan, with a Technical and Business lens, ensuring delivery inline with the overall programme while ensuring supplier deployment minimises operational risk
• Ensure the effectiveness and performance of the programme organisation and the operational performance in readiness for Transition
• Ensure the business operation is stable and consistent with controls and measures in place to support Transition
• Ensure all users have effectively adopted the new processes and ways of working before end of hypercare
• Ensure that the programme delivers a coherent capability, achieves its strategic outcomes, and realises its benefits
• Ensure there is effective rigor of Business and User acceptance testing, as well as operational testing, controls and reporting throughout Transition, Go Live and Hypercare
• Ensure the programme's increased governance arrangements and appropriate assurance during Transition is in place and understood
• Ensure all risks, issues and dependencies have been addressed pre Go Live and Go / No Go criteria has been achieved
• Maintain the interface with key senior stakeholders, keeping them engaged and informed, monitoring and updating on key strategic risks facing the programme during the Transition phase
• Ensure assurance and audit reviews in respect of Transition management activities and progress

You will need

• Significant experience managing complex, multi-workstream Finance Change programmes
• Experience of developing a change organisation
• Experience designing and implementing operating model change in large organisations
• Experience of cross functional change in a large organisation

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.